Illustrator
- Atomics for the Millions (by Dr. Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff) (1947)
- The Wonderful Farm (by Marcel Aymé) (1951)
- Good Shabbos Everybody (by Robert Garvey) (1951)
- A Hole is to Dig (by Ruth Krauss) (1952)
- A Very Special House (by Ruth Krauss) (1953)
- Hurry Home Candy (by Meindert DeJong) (1953)
- The Giant Story (by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers) (1953)
- I'll Be You and You Be Me (by Ruth Krauss) (1954)
- The Tin Fiddle (by Edward Tripp) (1954)
- The Wheel on the School (by Meindert DeJong) (1954)
- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm (by Betty MacDonald) (1954)
- Charlotte and the White Horse (by Ruth Krauss) (1955)
- Happy Hanukah Everybody (by Hyman Chanover and Alice Chanover) (1955)
- Little Cow & the Turtle (by Meindert DeJong) (1955)
- Singing Family of the Cumberlands (by Jean Ritchie) (Oxford University Press, 1955)
- What Can You Do with a Shoe? (by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers) (1955, re-colored 1997)
- Seven Little Stories on Big Subjects (by Gladys Baker Bond) (1955)
- I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue (by Ruth Krauss) (1956)
- The Birthday Party (by Ruth Krauss) (1957)
- Little Bear (by Else Holmelund Minarik, there was also a TV series based on this series of books)
- Little Bear (1957)
- Father Bear Comes Home (1959)
- Little Bear's Friend (1960)
- Little Bear's Visit (1961)
- A Kiss for Little Bear (1968)
- Along Came a Dog (by Meindert DeJong) (1958)
- No Fighting, No Biting! (by Else Holmelund Minarik) (1958)
- What Do You Say, Dear? (by Sesyle Joslin) (1958)
- Seven Tales by H. C. Andersen (translated by Eva Le Gallienne) (1959)
- The Moon Jumpers (by Janice May Udry)(1959)
- Open House for Butterflies (by Ruth Krauss) (1960)
- Best in Children's Books: Volume 31 (various authors and illustrators: featuring, Windy Wash Day and Other Poems by Dorothy Aldis, illustrations by Sendak) (1960)
- Dwarf Long-Nose (by Wilhelm Hauff, translated by Doris Orgel) (1960)
- Best in Children's Books: Volume 41 (various authors and illustrators: featuring, What the Good-Man Does Is Always Right by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrations by Sendak (1961)
- Let's Be Enemies (by Janice Udry) (1961)
- What Do You Do, Dear? (by Sesyle Joslin) (1961)
- The Big Green Book (by Robert Graves) (1962)
- Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present (by Charlotte Zolotow) (1962)
- The Singing Hill (by Meindert DeJong) (1962) (Harper Row)
- The Griffin and the Minor Canon (by Frank R. Stockton) (1963)
- How Little Lori Visited Times Square (by Amos Vogel) (1963)
- She Loves Me...She Loves Me Not... (by Robert Keeshan AKA Captain Kangaroo) (1963)
- McCall's: August 1964; VOL XCI, No 11 (featuring The Young Crane by Andrejs Upits, illustrations by Sendak)
- The Bee-Man of Orn (by Frank R. Stockton) (1964)
- The Animal Family (by Randall Jarrell) (1965)
- Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes (traditional nursery rhymes) (1965)
- Lullabyes and Night Songs (by Alec Wilder, edited by William Engvick) (1965)
- Zlateh The Goat (by Isaac Bashevis Singer) (1966)
- The Bat-Poet (by Randall Jarrell) (1964)
- The House of Sixty Fathers (by Meindert De Jong) (1956)
- The Saturday Evening Post: May 4, 1968; 241st year, Issue no. 9 (features Yash The Chimney Sweep by Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm: Volumes 1 & 2 (translated by Lore Segal with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell) (1973 both volumes)
- King Grisly-Beard (by Brothers Grimm) (1973)
- Pleasant Fieldmouse (by Jan Wahl) (1975)
- Fly by Night (by Randall Jarrell) (1976)
- The Light Princess (by George MacDonald) (1977)
- Shadrach (by Meindert Dejong) (1977)
- The Big Green Book (by Robert Graves) (1978)
- Nutcracker (by E.T.A. Hoffmann) (1984)
- The Love for Three Oranges (The Glyndebourne Version, by Frank Corsaro based on L'Amour des Trois Oranges (by Serge Prokofiev) (1984)
- Circus Girl (by Jack Sendak) (1985)
- In Grandpa's House (by Philip Sendak) (1985)
- The Cunning Little Vixen (by Rudolf Tesnohlidek) (1985)
- Dear Mili (written by Wilhelm Grimm) (1988)
- Sing a Song of Popcorn (by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers with various illustrators including Sendak) (1988)
- The Big Book for Peace (various authors and illustrators, cover also by Sendak) (1990)
- I Saw Esau (edited by Iona Opie and Peter Opie) (1992)
- The Golden Key (by George MacDonald) (1992) ISBN 0-374-42590-6
- We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures (traditional nursery rhymes) (Harper Collins) (1993)
- Pierre: or, The Ambiguities: The Kraken Edition (by Herman Melville) (1995) ISBN 978-0-06-118009-5
- The Miami Giant (by Arthur Yorinks) (1995)
- Frank and Joey Go to Work (by Arthur Yorinks), also has additional illustrations by Ky Chung (1996)
- Penthesilea (by Heinrich von Kleist, translated and introduced by Joel Agee) (1998) ISBN 0-06-095632-1
- Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (by Ursula Nordstrom, edited by Leonard S. Marcus) ISBN 0-06-023625-6
- Swine Lake (by James Marshall) (1999)
- Brundibár (by Tony Kushner) (2003)
- Sarah's Room (by Doris Orgel) (2003)
- The Happy Rain (by Jack Sendak) (2004)
- Bears! (by Ruth Krauss) (2005)
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